Mission Moroto Stories: The 12
Over the last 5 years we have discipled and trained every willing Karamojong heart that wanted to serve the Lord full-time. We’ve had to test the spirits and see who was a true follower of Jesus and who was simply attracted to titles or financial support. We’ve prayed hard and trusted the Spirit and weeded out many of the tares and God has richly blessed us with The 12. These 12 pastors are serious, hearty, strong, humble servants of the Lord. They are 7 men and 5 women whom we have taught and trained and faithfully serve our 24 village church plants. They go out on motorcycles to our Jesus and Porridge Program during the week where we feed and teach over 2000 village children. They each go to 2 or 3 villages on Sunday and preach the word and counsel and train and so forth. They all come to Mission Moroto every Tuesday and we have a Pastor’s Class. Over the years, Papa Matthew has taught through the 20 centuries of church history. He has taught them about every theologian in history, every heretic, every martyr, every missionary, every church leader. He has taught them about how we got our Bible. About where each collection of manuscripts was passed down and how 400 years after Jesus it all came together in one book called The Bible. He has taught them systematic theology (doctrine of God, of Christ, of Holy Spirit, of the church, of salvation, of the covenants, of end times, and so forth). Mama Rebekah has taught them verse by verse through the gospels and some of the epistles. We have a blessed time every Tuesday and then we share a meal together. We’ve encouraged them to begin to train an assistant so that eventually we can have 24 pastors and more as the Lord provides! Lord willing, in the years to come we will be able to train up some Karamojong missionaries to go out to the hundreds of unreached villages beyond where we minister now. Praise the Lord! www.missionmoroto.org #missionmorotostories